PennFuture 2012 Clean Energy Conference (Event)
On September 13-14, 2012 the PennFuture 2012 Clean Energy Conference will take place at the DoubleTree Hotel (Broad and Locust Streets) in Philadelphia, Pa. The event will focus on making the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions America’s Clean Energy Hub. What does that mean? We are talking about leveraging the significant market opportunities on the horizon [...]
Western hypocrisy in the Assange case
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been held up in Ecuador’s embassy in London for about two months, seeking asylum from the government in Quito. The allegations that Assange is facing in Sweden are sexual assault, so the Swedish government has requested that UK extradite the Wikileaks founder. I have written in in past that Assange is [...]
Where are the Development Political Scientists?
Economists dominate the development field, but politics is more important to promoting it. This contradiction explains why the policies often recommended by international institutions (such as the World Bank) do not sufficiently take into account the local political, social, and institutional context. The problem is echoed in other fields, with some blaming the inability of [...]
UNESCO: The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit
The Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is based on the idea that communities and educational systems within communities need to dovetail their sustainability efforts. As communities develop sustainability goals, local educational systems and programs can modify existing curricula or create new programs to reinforce those goals. The ESD Toolkit has proven to be effective for [...]
The Global Warming Conspiracy
People take the earth’s magnetic field for granted, because its can’t be detected by our five senses (sight, sound, taste, smell, feel, etc). It can only be detected by the knowledge that magnetic fields exist, or a magnetometer. The earth’s magnetic, and gravitational fields protects all life on the surface of this planet from the [...]
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